Word: screeners
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...several reports are studied, further investigation made and the wheat separated from the chaff." The usual court practice has therefore been for the trial judge to screen the reports as to their relevance and competence before turning them over to the defense for use in crossexamination. The judge-as-screener procedure was what the Jencks defense asked at the trial. Government attorneys were willing to go along. But District Court Judge Robert E. Thomason refused, without giving his reasons...
...appeal to the Supreme Court, the Jencks defense asked a new trial in which, specifically, Judge Thomason would be required to act as screener. It was this specific appeal that the Government argued against. In the legal point and counterpoint, the idea never came up of turning the FBI files over to the defense directly. But this was precisely the idea that the Supreme Court turned into a rule of law. Wrote Justice Brennan, with Chief Justice Warren, Justices Black, Douglas and Frankfurter concurring: "Because only the defense is adequately equipped to determine the effective use [of reports...
...players perhaps the key man in Munro's plans is creaseman Ned Yost, who is replacing Dick Bezansan. Though Hans Estin, a feeder, was the high scorer last year, as creaseman, Yost will probably do most of the scoring and will act as screener for the mid-field shots. Yost was high scorer for the Yardlings last year, and showed himself particularly well adapted to the long crosse...